Chapter 7 Dongxing Group

  After Qin Liang's speech, Sun Piaoyun, the director who was in charge of Project Three this morning, also spoke up.

  Director Sun Piaoyun is a woman in her thirties, speaking very quickly but with a soft voice, not aggressive at all. Her Mandarin has a hint of Jiangsu and Zhejiang accent, sweet and gentle, and her eyes subtly reveal the delicacy and cleverness unique to women from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

  "Listen up, I'll say a few words. Do you know why you all entered the Commerce Bureau together, but Qin Liang directly entered the formal establishment, while you can only be informal personnel?"

  After Sun Piaoyun's voice fell, everyone in the conference room looked at each other, seemingly with some unspoken understanding.

  Isn't this question easy? He has more connections and ways than us!

  Sun Piaoyun seemed to have seen through the thoughts of these people in the office, but she seemed to want to achieve this goal: "Let me just give an example, for instance, Tang Ying who is going to hold a concert at Yunfeng Sports Center tonight. You should all know that she is the adopted daughter of Tang Muer, chairman of Dongxing Group. She has her current fame today, and the Dongying Entertainment Company she is in can go this far, completely due to the operation of Dongxing Group behind the scenes without leaving any residue."

  "What does Dongxing Group do? Dongxing Group is the largest multinational telecommunications company in our country and also in the world today. The ephone we hold, the epad we use every day, the etv we watch at home... are all their products..."

  China is actually a forbidden word, damn it! Then let's say Huaxia country.

  "Dongxing Group is a company from where? It's an enterprise that originated and took root in Yunfeng City! The headquarters of domestic business is still located in Yunfeng City, and Tang Muer's home is also in Yunfeng City. Dongxing Group is the most authentic Yunfeng City enterprise, starting from Yunfeng City, expanding its business to more than 30 provinces and cities across the country over a decade ago, and finally becoming the current multinational conglomerate giant."

  "Dongxing Group now has the money, and this year plans to invest over 20 billion yuan in our province to build a new industrial park. Of course, there are also rumors that the subsequent additional investment for this industrial park may exceed 50 billion yuan."

  "Our Yunfeng City has developed very rapidly this year, and the Investment Promotion Bureau has made great contributions. Last year, our investment promotion work ranked among the top in the province's cities of the same level, reaching over 90 billion yuan. The Dongxing Group is an enterprise that originated from Yunfeng, if we let these hundreds of billions of investments fall into other cities in Tianhu Province, it would be a great shame for our Yunfeng City Investment Promotion Bureau."

  "Many brother cities are doing this kind of work, and even their municipal party committee and government leaders have personally come forward to make contact with Dongxing."

  "We, the new leadership of Yunfeng City Municipal Committee and Municipal Government, have been working hard to coordinate various tasks and trying to get in touch with Chairman Tang Muer. However, Chairman Tang is currently in Europe, and his clear response was that this year, all domestic business of the group company has been handed over to his daughter, Tang Wenjing, for full authority handling."

  "According to reliable sources, Tang Yun has been staying at home in Yungfeng City since returning from abroad with a double Ph.D. in economics and philosophy, but none of us can see her, including the leaders of the municipal party committee and government who cannot arrange to meet her."

  Colleagues from the Information Department learned from some of Tang's classmates abroad that she was a person with a very strange personality and way of thinking, and it was difficult for ordinary people to get along with her.

  The only person in the country who can talk to her and has a certain influence on her is her adopted sister Tang Ying.

  "Tang Ying is indeed Tang Mo's adopted daughter, but there are rumors circulating that she is actually his biological daughter, a illegitimate child born out of wedlock. Of course, as government department staff, we cannot discuss such matters in public. The information I revealed to you all today at the morning meeting should also not be leaked."

  "No matter whether Tang Ying is the biological daughter of Tang Mo or not, what we can be sure of now is that the relationship between Tang Wen and Tang Ying is extremely close. As long as we can get in touch with Tang Ying, it's possible to get in touch with Tang Wen and influence her final decision."

  "The problem is that Tang Ying isn't easy to get along with either, and it's not suitable for the municipal party committee and government leaders to personally make contact with her, a figure from the entertainment industry, about investment matters. So, we can only privately contact her and use her connections to get in touch with Tang Wen. This arduous task has fallen on our Investment Promotion Bureau."

  "Now, I have some good news to announce: thanks to Director Qin's efforts, we've finally established a connection with the people around Tang Ying! Do you know that yesterday evening, our Director Qin invited Tang Ying's assistant A Jie and the leaders of our investment promotion bureau to dinner together? With this connection in place, if we continue to work hard, it's possible for us to meet Tang Ying, or even her sister Tang Yun, and persuade Tang Yun to invest over 20 billion yuan in the industrial park in Yunfeng City."

  "Do you know what it means for our Yunfeng City Investment Promotion Bureau, or even the entire city of Yunfeng, that this industrial park with an investment of over 200 billion has settled in Yunfeng?"

  "...means employment for tens of thousands of people..."

  "...meaning the continued investment of over 500 billion in subsequent..."

  "Means hundreds of enterprises in the upstream and downstream of communication electronics and electrical industries gather at Yunfeng..."

  "It means that Yunfeng City's GDP will continue to double in the next few years..."

  "It means the performance and reputation of the leaders of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce and the Municipal Party Committee and Government!"

  "Why was Qin Zhu able to get in touch with Tang Ying's assistant A Jie, but you guys couldn't?"

  "This is connections! Without connections, you are nothing! With connections, you can become like Director Qin, the pride of the project department and the investment promotion bureau! So, everyone must work hard! Work hard to develop your connections! If you want to make progress, achieve results, enter the system, be recognized by the leadership and reused, you must put in 200% effort!"

  "After the meeting in the bureau next Monday, the project department will set up a new project group 4 on the basis of the original three project groups. In the future, there will be more project groups such as group 5 and group 6, and at that time, the bureau will have a large number of vacant positions."

  "The opportunity is right in front of you, it's up to you to show and strive for it!" Director Sun finally ended her long speech at the morning meeting.

  Leaders are leaders. The masses of clerks who had originally thought that entering the establishment next Monday was hopeless, after listening to Director Sun Piaoyun's words, couldn't help but become excited and hot-blooded again.

  Will project four groups be established next week? If there are really five groups and six groups, then in the future, a large number of vacancies will indeed appear.

  Last year, when the eight people who passed the public examination were recruited, Director Sun said that there would definitely be new positions for them within a year. She didn't break her promise. First, Qin Liang entered the position after just one month, and now there are two more new positions available. It seems what she said was true.

  Yang Bin was not enthusiastic, but after a year of project three group's investment promotion work, he still had some feelings about what Sun Piaoyun said earlier.

  His parents were both ordinary middle school teachers in the town, this was his first job, and the salary was low. Most of his previous salary had been spent on Zhou Xiaoyi, so he didn't have the capital to develop any connections.

  But Qin Liang was different, his father worked in the Education Bureau, and his mother was a mid-level cadre at Yunfeng City No. 1 Middle School, a provincial key middle school, and it is said that he also had an aunt who served as director of a department in the Municipal Personnel Bureau.

  With these, Qin Liang will certainly have more and wider connections than others.

  These things, Yang Bin all heard from Zhou Xiao Yi. At that time, Yang Bin did not know about her and Qin Liang's clandestine relationship, nor did he think much about why she was so familiar with Qin Liang's situation. It was just that the envious expression she revealed at the time now makes Yang Bin feel disgusted whenever he thinks about it.

  However, Yang Bin does not think that Qin Liang is sincere to Zhou Xiao Yi. This pair of dog man and woman, one wants to satisfy his lust, the other wants to get into the system, they are just taking what they need from each other.

  Zhou Xiaoyi indeed has a few points of charm, those fox-like eyes have a fatal attraction to men. Of course, Yang Bin only discovered this recently, in the year since she started working, her whole person has changed greatly, and is completely different from the pure and innocent university student she used to be.

  "Today, Director Sun will be in charge of following up on the recent work situation of Project Team 3. If there's nothing urgent to follow up on, don't go out! Write down the annual work summary that I assigned to you last week and come to my office one by one to report to me and Director Sun. Zhou Xiao Yi, you're first." After Qin Liang gave everyone their tasks for today, he announced the end of the morning meeting and glanced at Zhou Xiao Yi.

  Zhou Xiaoyi gave Qin Liang a charming smile, which made Yang Bin feel nauseous for a while.

  He had some doubts about himself, how he fell in love with her back in college.

  She wasn't like that back then.

  Recalling that simple and beautiful campus time, the beauty of first love and youth, as well as the emotional and multi-faceted efforts over the past four years, Yang Bin's heart couldn't help but feel a slight pang. However, he quickly dispersed this negative emotion.

  She, this broken shoe and tattered goods, is no longer worth Mr. Bin's further consideration.

  In the future, Bin's woman should be at least on the same level as Tang Ying.

  Recalling what Sun Piaoyun said at the morning meeting, Yang Bin couldn't help but think... Qin Liang and Tang Ying's assistant A Jie had a meal together, what was there to show off about?

  Tang Ying didn't say she would invite him to dinner when he comes back? She even left her phone number for him.